Hello and welcome to another episode of hidden treasures this is
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Dot com Now I just made it here in time from the doctors so I was glad I
wasn't light so when I was at the doctor I asked him after my physical if I'm
healthy enough to sax and he said not if you join in so I have to find
a new doctor or what but you know I also met
a new woman she said come over tonight nobody's home so I went over nobody was home
so that's just things that happen in my life OK Before we get to the topic of the
day I would like to do some a shout outs or hellos
a lot of people have asked to be recognized on the show and I have
a little more than usual so be
a with me because these are the viewers that I want to give credit to when
acknowledge OK I like to say hello to Amanda.
And Manda Elise Adkins and Ryan grimly they are partners in
a wonderful business called Colorado rocks Amanda and Ryan up hotness in this
wonderful rock mineral and gems shop they hand craft jewelry and facet their own
gems and cabbage shots they only mine and use USA mind gems and minerals and they
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mineral show it in the New York New Jersey rock and mineral shoal in Denver
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jewelry the jewelry they facet and by the way this couple is engaged to me married
so good luck Mazeltov and they're such a cute couple I want to say hello to
a law is George Angel Angel in Zealand of Papa George's pizza on through fifty one
June Street and West are fantastic pizza grind is and many of the treats elect to
say hello also to have the Bradley Lily and Jamison Cohen
and wish
a happy ninetieth birthday to Bernard Jamieson had those grandfather
and God be with you Bernard and hope you have
a wonderful birthday celebration ninety is old is quite a milestone and that's
a wonderful thing to give tribute to their family these wonderful folks from
northern Maine up to Bangalore India friends. Now I want to say hello to friends of
Remy Remy is
a woman who lost to her Charis dog and companion over twenty five weeks ago.
She hasn't it's probably been stolen out of the yard and she's very very
heartbroken about it there is about six thousand people on the Web site called
Remy's mom all over trying to find this dog for and. They haven't had any luck
so far and six point five thousand hits on Facebook.
As well so you can go online and on Facebook Grammys Mom dot com and find all the
details and we hope that she can. Bring her dog me home OK
And one last but not least I like to say hello to Don safer yes it's my sister in
law. Of Caldwell banker residential brokerage
a real estate broker to guide you through every step of the way of buying
a home she says she. I want to give her
a little recognition she worked. OK now I want to talk today
and I'm going to show you some knobs OK I'm talking about
not other than the kitchen utility utensil knobs these are their cars and hunting
knives watch fishing. Military knives and much more nicely
used more in the old days but many people still carry them every day.
Years ago almost every Me N.
. Boy and sometimes even women and girls carried pocketknives it was handy for Also
it's
a choice from removing staples to cutting rope opening envelopes cutting the string
from a package and this is just the tip of the iceberg of what could be done with
a pocket knife many men carried a fog knife which was on
a pocket watch chain and one vest pocket and
a pocket watch in the other and they didn't have
a box cutters and all these letter open is like we have now so they use that and I
for a lot of utilitarian work even eating at
a campsite or reading on their lunch hour hunt is carried camp knives and skinning
knives to prepare the game they hunted for the table most of the variety of knives
could be purchased at the local hardware store or department stores and as
a sub note a sub Thompson machine gun used to be available from C.
Is right just walk in and get one in the twenty's so that will keep your neighbors
out of. The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts each had their special knife gardeners had
pruning knives to tend to their plants fisherman had special knifes to fillet that
catch many of these knives can be quite valuable the common brands of knives were
made by companies such as case buck Colonial which is in Rhode Island and still
there Weston had a rock in this Winchester K.
Bar Imperial ropes and Utica plus
a lot more mean just like they used to be
a corner spot in every neighborhood they used to be a knife shop
a knife mean your factual all over the place I would say three quarters of them
have gone out of business. Then you had custom made knives were
a knife make I would make
a knife to your specifications many knife makers have become famous in the end
knives can now go for many thousands of dollars and sometimes hundreds of thousands
of dollars some that have passed away sadly in the price of the knives skyrocket
and price just like paintings do when an artist passes away some of the more
valuable knives were called switchblades which came about because in the fifty's
the gangster movies where the kids would hang out on the corner with their
motorcycles and flashed the Switchblade in the people in the fifty's got so scared
that Congress passed the federal law against switchblades which which really was
foolish because switchblades originally we call them now automatic knifes were made
to open with one hand and originally Will made for people that were in pew tease
from the war they only had one hand or they only had some fingers so this could
pop open with one hand or
a finger and they could cut their meat and eat very pretty reasonably but when they
started coming over from Italy in other countries in the form of stilettos which
are long thin ice and they were automatic then Congress passed the law making it
a felony to possess them now I think forty five states have repealed the
Switchblade law because they realize that it's not how the knife opens it's how you
use it once it's open so unfortunately in Massachusetts you can all numb but
you can't carry them. Which is like you can have
a cop but you can't drive it I don't understand it but that's the way it is and
hopefully that'll be overturned because the come the states that have automatic
knives legal they make thousands and thousands of dollars knife convention knife
shows at hotels all kinds of extra taxes that come in so I hope we will go to that
to now us an automatic knife you know opens with the push of a button a push of
a lever or a switch
a power leaf spring would power these blades opening very fast and very strong
these old switch blades of all sizes are valuable most in the hundreds of dollars
if in decent conditions and they were they had some of them three inches long they
had a safety which was
a slide switch and you push the button with the safety off in the blade came
popping out and these were not seen by most people as
a threat because they were they had bigger pocket the buck knife the buck one ten
was twice the size but it was me unusual and so anything automatic switch blade was
tossed into the wind now in other countries where they were legal
I mean they had some really unusual mechanisms they had an out the front where you
press
a switch in the blade comes out the front you press it again and it retracts back
in America here they make some beautiful ones but you have to be in law enforcement
to get them you can get what they call an assisted knife which it will come out
automatically but you have to manually retract it that gets over the thing of being
automatic It's called assisted opening knife. In Russia.
During the Cold War The spends Nat's which was this Special Forces developed
a ballistic knife which I used to own but sold
a long long time ago when they became too hot own what it was was a picture of
a bayonet with kind of a roundish heavy handle Well you could press
a button and they had
a spring in that in the handle that was extremely powerful and it would rock at
that knife across the room and it would stick into the wall or person or anybody
that was threatening you because they would take the knife and hold it in the hand
and the enemy would come towards them thinking well I can I have
a gun until they knew it they had. A ballistic knife going through the chest and
they were powerful you don't see them anymore once in
a great great while they'll be on
e Bay disguised as something else if you're lucky you might be able to pick up one
it's almost impossible and if you do if you show up outside your house the F.B.I.
Will move in next door along with your local SWAT team which is that's another
foolish thing but that's the law now they've come
a long way in making the automatic now it's because they used to have
a leaf spring which was
a straight spring that pressed down you pressed in and shot the blade out but after
a while that spring became weak and the knife wouldn't come out as strong as when
it was new so they've come up with what they call coil springs and they are
circular springs that basically don't get weak and you can open and close them all
day and nothing's going to happen to the way the knife comes out.
They're also very important life saving lives of war and that's trench
knives and secret daggers carried by the O.S.'s which is now that they became the
CIA. Now if you I'm going to show you some knives and
a short while. Now the best thing to do with the knife the reasonable price and in
good condition at a yard sale flea market and so on take
a chance and buy it look it over carefully if it has
a lot of loose blades broken blades loose handles or in the case of automatic
knives the push button does not open the knife just leave it on the table police
offices and firefighter E.M.T.
As carry special knives that incorporate the seat belt cutter the outside of these
blades are not chopped but inside the curve of these knives it's a shop is
a razor blade and that will blade and I have one to show you when pulled through
C.P.L. Material will go through it like
a hot knife through butter. Now on the bottom of the law just as where most knives
on the bottom of the main blade is where most knives have the information you need
to get a sense of the nice value it will have the company's name and sometimes
a serial number or sometimes just the name but if it doesn't have anything on
it some guys were made with no no name and some were made like that because the
company was too small to afford the stamp the put the name on it or there what they
call sterile knives they were issued to special divisions in the military like the
Green Berets special forces Navy SEALs Marine recon and they call them likes of
like I mentioned sterile knives because there's no maker's mock So if you were
found with
a knife they couldn't trace it to your country. I don't know how that worked
because if you were in
a uniform or you had other identification they still knew you were an enemy but if
the knives will laugh or dropped they would they would know who they were from. And
when you use this information and to the knifes name serial number on the computer
and you'll come up with some information and like I say some of the early makers
the knives are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars not now. Military knives can
be quite valuable not only in the U.S.
But privately made knives for the military and the knives of our allies and enemies
German World War two now is have an extreme amount of value because of the
connection to the Nazis and the evil they perpetrated people seek these out and
they're going for big big money the biggest knife and the most expensive German
knife is one that was carried by the S.S.
The black uniformed murderous secret police who were only allowed to carry that
one and if anyone else was carrying it they'd be executed now the
Americans and the allied soldiers since we won the war they brought home
a lot of knives and swords back to the United States German weapons
Japanese swords Japanese not
a talian daggers anybody that was at war with us and
a lot of people got them through or mail them home so probably if
a Houses older than seventy as there might be some in the attic or of the cellar or
somewhere hidden away. In many American soldiers believe it or not were
able to make their own now Ives in their downtime sometimes there was no downtime
and other times there were days or weeks of waiting so some of them would make what
they call theater knives and I don't mean the movie theater I mean the Pacific
Theater or the European theater as it was called in World War two they would take
parts from down planes and scrap iron and they couldn't they made some pretty nice
knives I mean still around today and some
a very valuable some have engraving of the yellow nurse some have other sayings on
them you see those once in a while but you're most likely to see that have
a yard sale or flea market so just be aware of that in many custom knife makers
during any war would produce produce knives for
a fighting man and woman in the the charge nothing or
a very affordable price now they bring big big money because of the custom make
in the designation to the military now I'm going to show you some knives so you can
see of some of the knives that I was talking about OK the first
knife I'm going to show you. Is this knife
OK this knife is like
a Swiss army knife only it was made by Gerber Now this knife has
a number of tools on it I won't take out all of them but it has
a screwdriver. Says it see there is
a screwdriver. At the scissors comes out and
unfolds. It is.
You see this is there and it also has
a tweezer. In another blade so this was made in the United States
a lot of them the Swiss Army knives are very similar made in Switzerland and the
a very popular carrier keep one in the Cock because they do
a lot of things. This one is kind of
a little scarcer because it was made in America where most of them are from
Switzerland in the ones that were made. In China most of them.
Very good unless the company really watch the engineering on them OK my next knife
is going to be this knife this is my personal carry
knife you see the pocket clip on the back and the front and this is
a lanyard this lanyard as skulls on it to remind me that I
might be dead if I use the knife in the wrong way but this knife is Japanese dial
and it's assisted opening I will show you you see that see how
fast that opened they call an assisted blade because I have to stop the blade
out of the knife and then make
a spring takes over this makes them legal in and I carry this every day eight
single edge OK Now here is
a police knife Smith and Wesson which is in Springfield and it is what they call
double action you can take the blade out with your hand
to use me I can't seem to I can't seem to get it with my hand but it is the other
way that's most important OK because
a switch on the top of the back you watch this see how
fast that came out. That was it's basically an automatic in to mean you will
because it has both features these aren't made anymore there's
a safety on it it was very very popular and still is with police officers E.M.T.
In the so on but. You can only be carried by law enforcement I was I'm an ex police
officer and I had
a few. With me OK another knife I want to show you this
knife is
a replica of the O.S.'s secret dagger that was carried in the sleeve
and if needed it was in
a special holster you pull it out and it will go through uniforms vests anything
extremely shocked armor piercing tip in the blade as triangular to
see but this is a triangle shaped blade the edge is
a shop in the point is armor piercing like I said these A B.
Indiscreetly carried and they could be deployed in the second to kill someone they
also had daggers that could be could be sewn in the Pals could be sewn in uniforms
and they were called lapel daggers or shirt pocket daggers that was sewn into the
pockets mean stuff but it got the job done OK
and this I want to show you this is a military knife this is
a folding May and that bayonets usually were pretty long so someone came up with
the idea to take some inches off them and make them
a folding million at this one has a stag handle which is
a form of Dariel or in to activate this this is not automatic you just take the
blade open it and it snaps into place you could see how big that is.
And it's
a pretty shop plate in this little knob here that my thumb is on you just pull that
up and it will retract the blindfold the blade why they didn't just make
a bigger sheath I don't know but. That's the way they was made there was many many
forms of these some had double edges some had single edges some had corkscrews some
had shotgun shell removeable gadgets because they did you shotguns in the war so it
came in was very very popular OK And now I would like to show you this is
what they call a tactical pen OK It's
a pen that can be used for self defense it's made out of hardened steel it
has. You have to open the pen if it's threaded like
a jar it just can't come off and in the end I'm going to show you what pops up.
And so once I use this there we go see this plate at Hope blade that is the seat
belt cutter this blade is raised to shop on the interior and dull
on the outside if I put this on the seat belt
a parachute or anything it would cut right through it and this is built in to
a knife
a pen and it's. Automatic because it's really not considered
a knife blade it's
a rescue tool and this pen comes apart and you can also use it believe it or not to
hit people with and because of the thick steel not only will the person go down but
it will catch it's made to catch some of their skin for D.N.A.
Testing so if you hit someone with this and they go along God forbid to kill
somebody the next day and they can match the D.N.A.
From what you had on your knife they caught OK I want to show you
another knife that is called a neck knife and the reason they call it
a neck knife is because it's worn around your foot you know it's called
a neck knife obviously because it's one around the neck under the share and
a lot of people would we had these as police officers detectives because at some
time they were captured they would have these knives not found in
a search and it comes in the sheath that usually made out of decks it's
a plastic that molds to any shape so you would just pull out your neck knife and
this is
a razor razor sharp edge you can go through the suit anything and
this is secretly under your shirt OK this
knife is what they call a fog knife it's
a tiny little knife that was made to go in the vest pocket it's from Germany and it
has mother of pearl in dolls and you can see how tiny it is and the blades actually
open it's has one of them that's open and this was for pairing fingernails as
a little file in the act cutting the in the
a cigar and these were really really popular in the late eighty's hundreds and
early one thousand nine hundred. I want to show you because this is
a knife from Finland it's called
a poco knife and in one form or another they can't these are carried to this day
this is a little fancy a model is sort of
a miniature one and the sheath is Birchwood and it comes out of its
sheath and you have a little jack knife Almos with
a fixed blade they kind of expensive in any other case and the wood case but
OK Now here I'm running out of running
a long time but I want to show you this knife this knife can be one in your pocket
and are in your shirt almost like
a big pen but it converts to
a knife and an unusual way endos fold sideways in the blade folds up
that is
a pretty thick blade and it's concealed in this body of sort of
like
a pen so. It's kind of neat OK now we're getting to the
end of the show and I want to do tell you that I wish everybody
a happy St Patrick's Day This outfit isn't for Bill Pickle week it's for St
Patrick's Day But the show's relevant any time at all that you see it so I want to
tell you this is an Arabian dagger. It's called the John B.
. OK folks the shark go out and find yourself
a nice treasure thank you for watching.